Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence

With heightened enterprise risks, Chief Legal Officers have become essential in business strategy, decision-making and internal collaboration.

The Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence Advisory Board discusses how a lifelong learning mindset is key to building resilient boards that are attuned to dynamic environments.

Boards are operating in an environment of heightened risk, evolving regulation, and amplified expectations, leading to increasing pressure on directors to be informed, prepared, and proactive. The expectation for robust, experienced diversity of thought is driving a new definition of director effectiveness.

Corporate governance has entered a new era. Legislative actions—and more specifically, the rules governing disclosures required by the laws—have applied greater accountability to boards and heightened investor expectations for board performance, composition, and corporate governance more broadly.

Against a backdrop of rising geopolitical and economic risks, proxy votes in 2022 provide important clues for board-shareholder relations in 2023. What can we learn by looking back at the 2022 proxy season?

Over the past two years, boards faced an extraordinary convergence of events that brought in their wake a more inclusive, stakeholder-centric perspective to creating shareholder value. Download the whitepaper for a closer look at how corporate governance is changing.

Succession planning is imperative for a company’s continuity and sustainability. Leaders from Nasdaq and Stanton Chase share their insights and advice about succession planning exercises, strategies, considerations, and more.

In a complex business environment, boards’ oversight of enterprise risk management can benefit from an integrated reporting structure.

In this Nasdaq Spotlight episode, Helle Bank Jørgensen, CEO & Founder of Competent Boards and Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence Insights Council Member, discusses the demand for ESG and climate education and offers advice for those getting introduced to corporate governance.

With corporate sustainability on the rise, investors and stakeholders are increasingly looking at ESG initiatives from companies across the globe. Recent developments, including the signing of The Inflation Reduction Act, suggests the need for boards and leaders to remain educated on evolving sustainability perspectives as well as tools and strategies to meet new expectations.

As businesses continue to grapple with a dynamic global landscape, Nasdaq and Sephora leaders discuss how a clear and innovative corporate culture can help build supply chain resilience.

As companies prepare remarks for the Q2 2022 earnings season, our latest trends and insights report summarizes our findings into five key ESG topics.

In a world of growing competition and technology advancements, people have come to the forefront as a critical asset and an authentic competitive advantage. It is a critical time for CHROs to have a seat at the board table.

International governance, board leadership, and public policy specialists engage in discussion about the board’s role in navigating ESG in times of volatility, maintaining focus on sustainability, and the evolving impact on good governance.

Aidan Mouat’s critical review applies the principles of the circular economy to the broader context of biotechnology innovations for food-waste reduction. The evaluation of sustainability and relationship to the food-waste management hierarchy are discussed with relevance to recent innovations in biotransformation of food waste and food-waste prevention.

Board members share how boards can ensure that every director feels free to contribute with their unique perspectives in the boardroom to strengthen a cohesive corporate strategies.

Based on insights from CEOs and board members at Zoom and Sonos, the ‘Diversity, Equity & Inclusion’ Insights Council share best practices for finding and welcoming first-time board members with diverse backgrounds.

A diverse set of skills, knowledge and perspectives in the boardroom can make a board stronger. PwC leaders share strategies and insights to increase women’s representation at the board level and support women’s career growth.

Starbucks Global Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer Dennis Brockman joins Jill Malandrino on TradeTalks for an update the company’s inclusion and diversity strategy and to discuss why companies have a responsibility to advance equity.

Boards that are intentional and strategic about their refreshment processes and succession planning, that go beyond their traditional networks to establish a diverse pipeline of potential directors, will be better able to represent their stakeholders, customers, employees, and communities—and be best positioned to help their organizations compete in the global market.

Privacy and cybersecurity has evolved beyond IT and legal compliance into benchmarks affecting market caps and shareholder values. Data security and risk experts share insights for boards to consider when addressing growing expectations from investors and government agencies.

Although out of mainstream investors’ spotlight, data privacy has moved our markets. Dominique Shelton Leipzig, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Partner at Mayer Brown, shares why boards should make data privacy a focus—especially with it already being evaluated by proxy advisory companies.

To respond to cyber threats effectively, boards need the right level of insights and analytics to “contextualize” them and make informed decisions around risk transfer, acceptance and management.

In order to better understand how prepared boards are to provide proper cyber risk oversight, RANE and Nasdaq conducted a survey. Survey findings suggest that boards and executive team members are taking proactive steps to mitigate cybersecurity risks. Plus, directors identified additional cyber risk training methods that would be beneficial.